A founder of MRKT music, Adam Wacht is a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, a career which began as the Writer/Producer/Guitarist of the band Trouble Tribe (Chrysalis Records), making two records and touring nationally and internationally. He played guitar and co-wrote with multi-platinum artists John Waite, Bad Company, and Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe) and more. At ICM (International Creative Management) I booked clients like Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick and Bryan Adams. Leaving ICM, he formed Adam Wacht Management. There he discovered Brian Howes, a now top rock/pop writer/producer for Daughtry, David Cook and Chris Cornell. He got his band Closure signed to TVT Records. That´s when Sam Feldman (manager of Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall) recruited him to manage developing artists at Macklam/Feldman Management. Realizing the old music business model was quickly becoming as extinct as the dinosaurs, he launched DART Recordings, an independent, digital only record company. Now he´s gone a step further and founded MRKT.

Artists will be able to hire label marketing, promotional and sync licensing services through MRKT’s strategic partners at pre-negotiated preferred rates, either individually or bundled. Each artist will be given a virtual dashboard via MRKT’s website where they can track their progress and stats – including breakdowns of streaming and accounting – which will also be accessible by a dedicated “Manager in a Box” app.

——————–THE INTERVIEW—————–

ADAMMother caught him air jamming to the Beatles
Had to have a guitar, age 4-6
Bunch of local bands
Signed to a record label
Manager of awesome acts
Agent
Own label

QUOTESI knew the artist were gonna be screwed
Signed to a label, did a couple of videos, they sent me a bill for 666,000 dollars.
Streaming, it´s a great promotional tool
Theyre still trying to milk artists from every angle
Whatever your budget it we can find somebody to help you out
Make it accessible for everyone
I need to still make music and record